Open AccessAntimicrobial susceptibility patterns of leading bacterial pathogens isolated from laboratory confirmed blood stream infections in a multi-specialty Sanatorium
Author(s) -
Nishat Hussain Ahmed,
Tanveer Hussain
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of global infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-8245
pISSN - 0974-777X
DOI - 10.4103/0974-777x.145231
Subject(s) - acinetobacter , citrobacter , microbiology and biotechnology , antimicrobial , antibiotics , enterococcus , klebsiella pneumoniae , medicine , pseudomonas aeruginosa , staphylococcus , antibiotic resistance , blood culture , biology , klebsiella , staphylococcus aureus , escherichia coli , bacteria , enterobacter , biochemistry , genetics , gene
Dealing with severe blood stream infections (BSI) is one of the intractable conditions in hospitals. The empirical treatment given remains pertinent in determining patient outcome, which becomes evidence based when substantiated by knowledge of susceptibility patterns of prevalent pathogenic organisms in the set up. This study was undertaken to determine the occurrence, species prevalence, and antibiotic susceptibility pattern of laboratory confirmed BSI (LCBSI) in patients admitted to our multi-specialty sanatorium.